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Rhapsodize

Inspirational Poetry

By: Latonya West Kimble

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Rhapsodize

Inspirational Poetry

By: Latonya West Kimble

This poetry book was written to inspire and encourage people to live right before God with excitement and expectancy of the Lord Jesus Christ's soon return.

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Stand in My Window

Meditations on Home and How We Make It

By: LaTonya Yvette

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Stand in My Window

Meditations on Home and How We Make It

By: LaTonya Yvette

Through essays with stunning photography, the beloved multimedia storyteller and author of Woman of Color shares the powerful lessons she’s learned about creating a home that honors the past and celebrates the future. “A generous, three-dimensional portrait that inspires the reader to reflect on their own sense of home and belonging.”—Rio Cortez, New York Times bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History “Home is a reflection of what we inherit.” Grappling with the state of the world over the last few years—the global pandemic, climate change, threats to women’s rights, constant racial violence—LaTonya Yvette began to contemplate the concept of home. What does it mean to cultivate safety when it is constantly under threat? How can we nurture joy and peace within the spaces where we spend most of our precious time? Who can we turn to for guidance along the way? In Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It, Yvette explores these kinds of questions as she takes readers through the journey of her own rediscovery of home. In eleven meditative essays, accompanied by 25 beautiful photographs taken over the course of writing the book, Yvette illustrates how the act of homemaking can be revolutionary, liberating—and one of the most powerful expressions we have of self- and community care. Woven throughout the book is the story of the nearly 200-year-old house in upstate New York that Yvette bought and painstakingly renovated, with the aim of creating a safe space for BIPOC communities. The house—Yvette’s ultimate expression of home—provides her greatest lessons. Both visual feast and emotional salve, Stand in My Window demonstrates that home truly is what you make of it—in mind, body, soul, and in the thoughtfully curated spaces we can build for ourselves anywhere.

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Dial Press

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0593242424

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9780593242421

Secrets in Love

By: Latonya D. Young

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Secrets in Love

By: Latonya D. Young

When Chloe Kaufman meets Lyndon she has no time for love. Her father's illness drives her to strive for success in an attempt to make life easier for her mother. That drive leaves very little space for falling in love. But when love is staring her in the face refusing to walk away she is tempted to jump in head first, caution to the wind. She soon finds that love is exactly what she was expecting it to be. Time consuming, draining and downright hard. Love isn't supposed to hurt. But for Chloe and Lyndon it seems to be one thing after another. The secrets that he hides from her threaten to tear apart their relationship. When ex-wives and babies jump from Lyndon's closet, Chloe is faced with decisions that could place her family in a difficult financial situation. When Chloe receives news from her doctor, it only makes loving Lyndon even harder. Dealing with a life threatening illness turns Chloe's life upside down, making her want to give up not only on Lyndon but life as well.

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Lulu.com

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1304903370

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9781304903372

Black Again

Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity

By: LaTonya Summers

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Black Again

Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity

By: LaTonya Summers

I was driven by the belief that if I wanted to go somewhere I'd need to be something other than Black." LaTonya Summers was only six years old the first time she unconsciously tried to be "more white". Recollecting experiences from her childhood in foster care through to her life today as an Assistant Professor and mother, LaTonya examines how her perception of self was affected by internalized racism and led her to adopt white norms - influencing everything from her music and clothing choices to her speech and values. Join LaTonya in her journey of realization - how all those years assimilating, stretching and pressing for whiteness harmed her, and how, in a world that sees her as Black, it's about time she did too. Discover how LaTonya has truly "made it" by embracing and endorsing the Afrocentric norms and values that have sustained her and her family better than any white picket fence ever could.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1839973196

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9781839973192

More Than Medicine

Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State

By: LaTonya J. Trotter

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More Than Medicine

Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State

By: LaTonya J. Trotter

In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients; they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state. Through More Than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.

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Cornell University Press

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1501748173

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9781501748172

Memoirs of a Broken Hearted Girl II

By: Latonya D. Young

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Memoirs of a Broken Hearted Girl II

By: Latonya D. Young

Sophie has spent two years under armed guard. Now the walls are beginning to close in. Her life and the lives of her children are at risk. She still hasn't gotten over the brutal murder of her husband and those recurring nightmares that replay that awful moment, night after night, are driving her insane. She's itching at the bud to pay the men who murdered her husband a visit, but her love and respect for Jack is holding those desires at bay. Jack has given up too much for the safety of Sophie and her sons, for her to foolishly go off and risk her life, while seeking revenge. A string of midnight phone calls forces her to face that Taryn won't give up on having her, and their son. When Taryn murders another of Sophie's loved ones just to prove a point, it brings out the bad girl that she tried to control, and now that she has been unleashed, murder and revenge are the name of the game, and no amount of coaxing from Jack can keep Sophie from acting impulsively.

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Lulu.com

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1312165405

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9781312165403

Good to Me

By: LaTonya Mason

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Good to Me

By: LaTonya Mason

This debut novel from a fresh new voice is full of unforgettable and imperfect characters who hope against all hope for perfect lives. If being perfect is a prerequisite to getting into heaven, then Charity Phillips has earned her seat in the Kingdom. This accomplished single mother is an exceptional therapist with her own hot, new counseling firm, Horizons Counseling Center, and a minister at her church.While the pressures of these dual roles are challenging, she single-handedly overcomes them all. But when a whirlwind of trouble suddenly blows into her life and threatens not only her business but also the custody of her son, she loses it and finds herself in a very dark place. Add to this an undeniable attraction to the prison inmate who keeps sending her love letters, complications with a schizophrenic patient, and differences among three women in her office with sometimes explosive temperaments, and chaos erupts in the life of a Christian woman who prides herself on being able to handle everything.

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Grand Central Publishing

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044656026X

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9780446560269

Woman of Color

By: LaTonya Yvette

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Woman of Color

By: LaTonya Yvette

A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life’s trials, including motherhood, love, death, and racism. Her first book, Woman of Color, is part memoir, part lifestyle guide—packed with moving essays, gorgeous original and archival photographs, and practical style and beauty advice. At the very heart, though, it’s about LaTonya’s experience growing up as a woman of color in Brooklyn. Each beautifully designed chapter covers a different topic—the meaning behind her name, how vitiligo has shaped her definition of beauty, her childhood hairstyles, raising her children as a 20-something mom—and ends with thoughtful advice and lifestyle takeaways like how to tie a headwrap or incorporate new, bold colors into your wardrobe. Woman of Color is real life, real style for women from all walks of life. In it, LaTonya has written a love letter to women, filling this book with vulnerable, imperfect truths from a black woman blogger, a voice not often seen on bookstore shelves.

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Abrams

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1683354966

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9781683354963

No Matter What

By: Latonya R. Baskerville

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No Matter What

By: Latonya R. Baskerville

Tormented for her weight, height, & dark-colored skin... Latonya turns to drugs to gain acceptance from her peers. It doesn't work. The bullying grows stronger and the drugs get weaker. At 17, she starts prostituting - protected or unprotected. She is raped, beaten and sexually violated. After making a direct sale to an undercover cop, Latonya faces 2 to 6 years in prison. A plea with a judge allows her to enter rehab as an alternative to incarceration. She completes drug treatment, a job readiness program and completes her GED. Latonya learns to accept the consequences of her destructive lifestyle and continues to share her story with others....

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FriesenPress

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1460228081

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9781460228081

Reign - Book 3 of the Getting Through Today series

By: Latonya D Young

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Reign - Book 3 of the Getting Through Today series

By: Latonya D Young

Former detective Ocean Rose knew that it didn't matter how far they fled, trouble would always be on their heels. It seemed that no matter where they went the Hawthorne brothers were running from trouble. And the choices that Ocean made to leave the agency to follow behind the love of her life, Xavier Hawthorne, only meant that she was always going to be on the wrong side of trouble as well. And as if hiding from the FBI and the CIA wasn't bad enough, now they were hiding from Arianna's deranged brother who wanted nothing more but to make everyone including Ocean, pay for the damage that was done to his sister

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1365246396

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9781365246395

A Summer of Passion, Love, Pain, and Happiness

By: LaTonya W. Moore

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A Summer of Passion, Love, Pain, and Happiness

By: LaTonya W. Moore

A Summer of Passion, Love, Pain, and Happiness offers a vivid account of the trials and tribulations that three successful single women endure in their quest for their soul mate. Experience a summer in the lives of these women as they embark upon their journey in search of true love. Jasmine Whitfield is a chemist at a local pharmaceutical company. She has yet to find that special man to start a family with as well as one who is worthy of all she has to offer. After years of dating, she discovers that her suitors are intimidated by her financial independence because she is able to provide herself with all of the luxuries that money can buy. Will she find a real man who can handle her success? Lela Johnston has had a hard life growing up without her father. She overcame that obstacle to become one the most successful beauticians in Huntsville. In addition to running her own salon, she does her best to nurture her on-again-off-again relationship with her boyfriend Mark Harrington. The black cloud that has tainted their relationship is his ex-wife, Valerie. She has been dead set on ruining Lela’s life since day one. She has a defined role in Mark’s life because they have two daughters together. Now that Mark is back in Lela’s life for good, how will his ex-wife handle living without him? Monica Van Adams is a single mother who was madly in love with her high school sweetheart and child’s father, José Alvarez. He left Monica to raise their son alone when he ran off to be with another woman. Monica’s naïve demeanor quickly becomes one of wisdom as she learns more and more about the opposite sex. She runs into a man from her past, experiences a whirlwind courtship, and then lets him get away. Will he ever return? Join the ladies as a night on the town brings them closer together to help one another deal with the hardships of life, love, and accepting Mr. Right Now. Will they ever find the man of their dreams in only a few months’ time? Can they go through each phase of the rigorous process of a relationship and still maintain their dignity? Discover every aspect of Jasmine, Lela, and Monica as they experience a summer of passion, love, pain, and happiness.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453583394

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9781453583395

Confessions of a Lonely Churchgirl

Secrets Untold

By: Latonya Leonardo

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Confessions of a Lonely Churchgirl

Secrets Untold

By: Latonya Leonardo

The book is about the hardships she went throughthe abuse, pain, and sadness she had to endure in her past relationships and what it drove her to do. She encourages women, teens, and anyone who reads her book; life may be hard, but just keep pushing.

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1524622338

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9781524622336

Getting Through Today II

By: Latonya D Young

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Getting Through Today II

By: Latonya D Young

Love has taken Ocean in a direction that she never thought she'd take. Falling in love and following her heart forced Detective Ocean Rose into making a decision that has placed her in deep trouble with the men that she love's, the police force and the FBI. Now she finds herself battling her heart and her love for the job. If she follows her heart it could lead her to losing everything that she's worked to obtain in her career as well as the man who waits for her on the other side. To make things worse, one of Xavier's brothers hates her while the other seems to be developing feelings for her that he finds difficult not expressing. Little does Ocean realize that working the case of the missing girls could bring her closer to one brother and cause a rift in her relationship with the other, while pushing her further away from her badge and the cop who is waiting for her on the other side of the road.

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1365290166

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9781365290169

A Piece Untitled

By: Latonya Binky Toran

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A Piece Untitled

By: Latonya Binky Toran

Lani is a young bi-racial girl. She was raised in the southern grit of sudsidized housing, in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. She was raised by Cash, an African-American reformed alcoholic, after she was abandoned at birth by her caucasian mother. Lani is devasted when she is faced with the sudden death of her only beloved parent. She is forced to make a choice to become a bride, rather than spend the rest of her teen years in a foster home. Lani discovers that poetry can be a refuge, when confronted with life's most challenging times. She struggles to find her voice in the mist of a controling husband, four children and a very overbearing mother-in-law. Lani learns about life, love and redemption in, "A Piece Untitled.

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1496923324

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9781496923325

Hunters

Have you ever made love in a deer stand?

By: LaTonya Faulkner

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Hunters

Have you ever made love in a deer stand?

By: LaTonya Faulkner

Lust and envy motivate this story as five brothers, two of whom are twins, go on a hunting trip to brush up on their hunting skills. Sharing the same passion for hunting, the brothers are all also hiding a dirty little secret. After one of the twins has a suspicion that his wife is having an affair with one of his brothers, the bow and arrow turns. THE HUNTER QUICKLY BECOME THE HUNTED. The truth shall set you free and the arrow shall make you bleed. So, which one is thicker this time, blood or bow?

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798889258704

Standing on the Promises of God

By: LaTonya R. Forrest

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Standing on the Promises of God

By: LaTonya R. Forrest

To every woman, man, boy, or girl who has struggled with poverty, rejection, isolation, church hurt, answering their call to ministry, or whatever assignment that God has called you to do, know that you can overcome any obstacle. First, just believe the promise that God has made to you and believe that despite whatever you have been through, God is going to pull you through. God is going to bring that promise to pass. Just trust the process. The process does not change the promise. Your process brings you to the promise. It is my prayer that through this writing, someone is being encouraged, strengthened, and restored to the church. Don't give up on God.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1638745218

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9781638745211

Fallen

By: Latonya D Young

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Fallen

By: Latonya D Young

When Xavier entered Ocean's life he turned her world upside down. His love for her was like nothing she'd ever felt and took her to places she never knew existed. But what Ocean battled with in the beginning was Xavier's ties to the underworld and it seems that despite his promises and the love that Xavier has for Ocean he still can't leave his bad boy ways behind him.Time passes but Jenson's love for Ocean never fades. He places his life at risk vowing to keep her safe. Despite his love for his brother, Jenson can't seem to keep his mind and eyes off the one girl that brotherly love won't allow him to have.As if it is a curse for the brother's, Hamza is also battling a love that he never should have allowed himself to yearn for. The one girl that he wants more than life itself is the one girl that will do any and everything within her power to see him dead.

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1387833103

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9781387833108

Memoirs of a Broken Hearted Girl III

By: Latonya D Young

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Memoirs of a Broken Hearted Girl III

By: Latonya D Young

What is it in us that drive's us to the very thing that we should be running from? That is a question that Sophie has been trying to answer for years. Her feelings for Taryn are still haunting and confusing her, causing her to doubt her own sanity. Sophie has found out the hard way that working against Taryn and fighting his love for her, can and will lead to death and destruction. After recuperating from a gunshot wound that nearly cost her the life of her unborn child she's right back into the arms of Taryn Brownstone. Taryn is anxious for a fresh start with Sophie and will do everything in his power to keep her. His love for Sophie and his kids has driven him to forgiving her for murdering both of his brothers and his aunt. When all hell breaks loose, Sophie has to face some difficult decisions. Murdering the man that she can't admit to loving so that she can find her way back home and into Ronin's arms or remaining with the her captor.

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1329146174

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9781329146174

Ocean's Wave

By: Latonya D Young

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Ocean's Wave

By: Latonya D Young

It was Xavier's love that had saved Ocean back in Miami. But can that undying love survive the betrayal? And what does she do when her heart is pulling her in one direction and the badge is still pulling her in another?Xavier's love for Ocean runs deep. Despite her deception she's everything that he's ever wanted in a woman and nothing will stop him from having her completely. He's determined to go to the ends of the earth to not only make her happy but to also make her understand that there is no place in the world for her that will not lead her back to him.What will they do when the FBI comes knocking to take the Hawthorne crew in? But most importantly, who will Ocean choose this time, the badge or the love of her man?

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1387832948

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9781387832941

Rhapsodize

Inspirational Poetry

By: Latonya West Kimble

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Rhapsodize

Inspirational Poetry

By: Latonya West Kimble

This poetry book was written to inspire and encourage people to live right before God with excitement and expectancy of the Lord Jesus Christ's soon return.

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